Health Nazis invade Picnicland

Jack McConnell: pug-faced moron, failed teacher, fascist, adulterer and moron.

What is it that makes those in authority such total and utter bastards? It simply must be true that power corrupts, because it seems that all of our rulers seem bent on making everyone else's lives a fucking misery. Mind you, personally, I think that socialists are the very masters at this game, since their entire philosophy revolves around fascism, bent—as it is—towards forcing people to do things which they would not naturally wish to.

And, of course, foremost in this pantheon of theft and evil is Scotland's toy-town government, an organisation which is bent on making Scotland an intolerable place to live. Thus, this Herald headline comes as absolutely no surprise whatso-fucking-ever:

Call for full ban on public drinking

A ban on drinking in public places should be rolled out across the entire country, according to a working group looking at ways to control marches and parades.

The few councils that allow the practice are being pressured to fall into line with the majority of local authorities by passing by-laws against public drinking, with support from the Scottish Executive for a complete ban in Edinburgh.

Do you see what they are doing here? In order to control the actions of a very, very tiny minority, the Scottishg Executive are determined that everybody should suffer. NIce, middle-class family want to have a picnic in the sun on the Meadows and have a glass of Pimms? No, sorry, it's off to the fucking slammer for you, son.

The team of experts reported this week that drinking alcohol at marches – notably at Loyalist and Republican processions during summer – should be further controlled.

A team of experts? What do you want to bet that this team contains at least one fucking cunt of a fucking doctor who cannot keep his fucking trap shut, eh?

They stated: "By-laws have significantly reduced the nuisance and disorder normally associated with drinking in public".

Yes, and they have also considerably curtailed the quality of life for those who do not cause any disturbance whilst having a quiet drink in one of Scotland's many green spaces. You fucking cunt-boxes, I hope that your limbs drop off and your lips are sewn together with coarse string inpregnated with salt-water.

Their report notes that only five out of 32 councils have not barred outdoor drinking in public. But at the end of last month, Edinburgh Council – the only one of the five where there are Orange or Republican marches – approved a similar drinking ban to the one that already applies in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee and 450 other towns and villages.

Well, we know that the City of Edinburgh Council are one of the biggest bunch of bastards—apart, of course, from the Executive themselves—this side of Bastardtown in Bastardland, the fucking bastards.

Some, such as Glasgow's, cover the whole council area while others are targeted at problem areas. The remaining four councils without a public drink ban are Aberdeenshire, Borders, Orkney and Shetland.

There's only a total of about 30 people in Orkney and Shetland anyway. The Borders is almost entirely populated by farms and small villages; I wonder what the police think of trying to enforce this ban on 400 acres of farmland, eh? As for Aberdeen, well, most of the population are on rigs half the time, as far as I can tell.

Luckily, Edinburgh Council did make at least one concession to common sense (and that fact surprised me, I can tell you).

The Edinburgh by-law follows a dispute with the executive over how the offence is defined, in which the Justice Department last month relented and gave the capital's council the leeway to have a different outdoor drinking offence.
Edinburgh wants to make its by-law apply when a drinker "fails to desist when required to do so by a police officer".

This is a half-way sensible compromise, but the Council should not have been pressured into this step in the first place.

The executive wanted public drinking to be an offence even without a police officer asking for it to stop.

The Executive and their pug-faced moron of a First Minister can—with all due respect, i.e. none—some their laws up their arseholes and fuck off while they are doing it. The bunch of fascist shitbags. Have you never heard the concept of innocent until proven guilty, you bunch of illiberal shysters?

The capital's councillors unanimously told the executive their option "struck the right balance and was appropriate to the character and circumstances of the city", and it has support from the police and procurator-fiscal. It allows picnics where alcohol is consumed to go ahead in Princes Street Gardens, while police can tackle heavy drinkers' favoured haunts in nearby Hunter Square and other parts of the Old Town.

Er, then why is it needed? Why cannot these drunks (of which there are a few) be picked up under the existing laws? The answer is that they can be; they just aren't because it is too difficult for the police to enforce.

The by-law is awaiting final approval from the executive before being put in place, and will cover the entire city.

And I bet that the Executive try to take out the reasonable get-out clause. This is because the Scottish Executive are a bunch of corrupt, money-grabbing scum with all of the intelligence and integrity of the offspring of Baldrick and Blackadder.

When will McConnell and the rest of his evil band get the message? And the message is this: stop interfering in the lives of law-abiding citizens, get on with providing the services which you are currently utterly failing to provide adequately, and then fuck off and die, you bunch of spineless, pusillanimous, secretary-fucking, expenses-fiddling cunts. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you fucking fucks.

Would the last civilised liberal to leave Scotland please turn out the light...